I am delighted to introduce myself as the Reform UK candidate for Guildford.

Full statement

I have never been a politician and, like many of you, I am exasperated by the ones we have now. I’m standing for all of you who can no longer bear the same socialist policies coming from the three traditional parties. “Vote Reform and you will get Labour” they say – but we already have a socialist, big state, high tax government.

I believe in what were previously Conservative policies; I didn't leave the Tories, the Tories left me. The Tories are no longer conservatives.

I believe in the Reform UK centre-right policies to:

- Control immigration. Legal immigration is out of control running at nearly 1.5 million net in the last two years; this must be substantially reduced.

- Leave the ECHR to really ‘Stop the Boats’. Migrants ‘fleeing’ from France must be picked up and returned.

- Lower taxes and make work pay. No tax on income below £20,000 a year. Help train the unemployed into work.

- Reduce corporation tax to generate growth. I have previously founded a business from scratch which eventually contributed £3 million each year in tax, generating funds for public services; this would be impossible now.

- Real democracy. Abandon the ‘first past the post’ electoral system which stifles change; introduce proportional representation so that every vote counts.

- Reform our institutions. Change the House of Lords; cut the bloated civil service.

- Scrap Net Zero targets. Save the UK £30 billion every year to 2050 rather than wrecking the economy for only 1.1% effect on global emissions.

- Reform the NHS. Cut bureaucracy and woke policies; allow doctors and nurses to focus on patients.

I have a proven and publicly available professional reputation for integrity, and would devote my time to the residents of Guildford where I have lived and/or worked half a century. I will listen.